Tibetan uplift was mainly caused by post-collisional mantle dynamics, not ongoing India-Asia convergence. The study ...

Tibet is situated on the Tibet Plateau, which includes parts of neighboring Chinese provinces Qinghai, Sichuan, Gansu and Yunnan. These areas used to be part of Tibet until Chinese rule.

Published today in Current Biology, a new study shows that the Yangtze finless porpoise has lost over 65% of its historic ...

A rare geological process is tearing the Indian Plate apart deep beneath the surface, scientists have discovered. In a study published by the American Geophysical Union, researchers revealed the plate ...

Researchers have determined that a mysterious jawbone discovered on the seafloor off the coast of Taiwan was Denisovan, ...

Over the last 1,400 years, populations of the Yangtze finless porpoise have dramatically declined in China. But intensive ...

In a discovery that may rewrite the map of human prehistory ... with teeth was found in the Baishi Cliff caves on the Tibetan Plateau. “One possible place to discover Denisova hominin fossils ...

“We’re trying to build a road map for where these fish are going ... from its headwaters in the Tibetan Plateau to the South China Sea, flowing through China, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia ...

It’s not just any fossil, but one that reshapes the map of human ancestry ... sits 3,280 meters above sea level on the Tibetan Plateau. In contrast, Penghu is at just 23°N, in a far warmer ...